Billy Strings is clearly in the fast lane when it comes to releasing new music this year. At midnight he announced a new album, Highway Prayers, via social media. Coming Sept. 27, the album appears to have a car […]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Wild Ponies are No Depression’s Spotlight band for August 2024. Look for more about them and their new album, Dreamers (out Aug. 23 on No Evil Records), all month long. Love has a way of expanding […]
Live records can be hit-or-miss. Luckily for roots music fans, July 2024 brought us not one, but two outstanding releases capturing live music on tape. Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings kicks off the month’s playlist with his light-speed flat-picking guitar […]
symbiont, the new collaborative album from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, isn’t going to sound like anything you’ve heard before. The album, coming Sept. 27 on Smithsonian Folkways, contends with the past, present, and future through the lens of […]
After months of intense speculation, the International Bluegrass Music Association announced today the new home for its annual World of Bluegrass conference and festival. After one last hurrah this September in Raleigh, North Carolina, the event’s home since 2013, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: AJ Lee and Blue Summit is No Depression’s Spotlight band for July 2024. Learn more about the band and their new album, City of Glass, in our interview, and watch a video of them performing “Hillside” from […]
In one of the very best kinds of surprises, Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings announced a new album today. Woodland, from the duo’s own Acony Records, is coming Aug. 23. The album is named for their Woodland Studios in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt of a story from our Summer 2021 journal issue, exploring the theme of “Voices.” We share it today in honor of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who passed away this week at the age […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an excerpt from a profile in our Summer 2024 journal issue of the issue’s guest editor, Béla Fleck. You can read the whole story — and much more — in that issue, here. And please consider supporting No Depression with […]
The International Bluegrass Music Association announced its 2024 award nominees live today from the SiriusXM studios in Nashville. The live announcement, helmed by SiriusXM host Joey Black and musicians Dailey & Vincent, also revealed the 2024 inductees into the […]
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